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Things We Never Did
02:36
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We’d drink straight from the bottle
And we’d try to drive
Faster than our heads could go
We always said that nothing could slow us down
We were young
What did we know?
We were just acting tough
On TV shows they were kissing
Talking no regrets
On movie screens they were living large
They’ve got nothing on us, forever tumbling hand in hand
Through the air
Under a sea of stars
Looks like we’re taking off
Hear the cheering from the crowd
It was going to be us against the world
Someone's switching on the lights
Looks like an engine catching fire
This first one is dedicated to all the things we never did
Looks like we're taking off
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Better Days
03:19
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Dressed up as bad poetry
Beautiful idiots
We snuck out into the summer night
Feeling alive as little kids
But when I think of you
I think of you young and careless as you were then
Licking gin off your lips
Leaning in and whispering
Here’s to better days
Here’s to better days
Haven’t had too many of late
But here’s to better days
Rock songs on the radio
Grease staining your hair
It wasn’t easy
Carrying all of your concealed plans
But when I think of you
I think there’s still really nothing that I would change
We were never any better than
Any of our best mistakes
Here’s to better days
Here’s to better days
Haven’t had too many of late
But here’s to better days
One day you’ll reach out
Across a universe of grace
Here’s to better days
Here’s to better days
Haven’t had too many of late
But here’s to better days
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Gasoline
02:11
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We drove for the city
Sunlight in our hair
You must have shone a million miles
We were making faces
Laughing at everything
Talking to the radio
I was just a child
Grabbing at the wind
Never knew what I had
Heaven for a sinner
Fire and gasoline
You must have shone a million miles
You must have shone a million miles
You must have shone
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4. |
The Golden Age
03:18
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I don't blame it on you
Life's shorter than I ever thought it would be
And I keep paying my taxes to the good old days
Hot feelings
Strange delusions
They dragged you by the scruff of your neck
Into the golden age
And I wanted you to stay
Pretty lady
Almost a stranger
You put your hand into my hand
It felt like I was breathing in
Now we got what we wanted
And it just keeps us from wonder
We stand high up on the balcony
Complain about the golden age
And I wanted you to stay
We used to listen to our drainpipes running
The song on our lips
Wasn't even worth humming to
You told me you weren't scared of being nothing
It’s just a place where you can hide
You come to me now
Dressed as yesterday's party
Friday night lips
And a Tuesday tie in your hair
Ask me if you can come in
You need a place where you can hide
And I wanted you to stay
And I wanted things to stay the same
And I wanted you to stay the same
And I wanted you to stay
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Until The Road Runs Out
04:07
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Remember how we used to listen to Dancing in the Dark
Throw our high beams out over the rows of parked cars
We drank our share of supermarket wine
Always reaching for some perilous high
You know I've changed a lot since the first time we kissed
There’s things about us I know will never get fixed
I could run until the road runs out
But I’m sticking right here with you for now
I would talk about Jesus Christ
How he turned me round like water into wine
You told me last night I was talking in my sleep
Tried to tell you that I love you
And I’m sorry
I used to wail at the worst of the liars
Now I know that’s just how most people are
There’s coal burning in everyone’s mind
There’s gold glowing in everyone’s eyes
But I’ve been down in this bar for too long
Getting too drunk
Speaking too slow
To get home in time
Turn the TV on
Put my arm around you
Tell you I’m never going to go
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Good Company
03:18
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I keep on remembering
This disappearing dream
Of you and I
Both children
Brimming with belief
That we were heading for a place
Nobody’s ever seen
Though the road is long and winding
I will be good company
Now I’m feeling like the whalers
Waving to their families
Casting off the shoreline
For the unforgiving sea
Where everybody’s searching
For a place they’ve never been
If you find it
Take me with you
I will be good company
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7. |
Wasted So Much Time
03:03
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I’ll leave a light on
Lay your stuff out on the bed
Think of all the days
I thought I could forget
And all the plans we made
For things we never did
I’ll leave a light on
Were you ever living here?
Another ten dollar show
Playing for the other bands
We sang the hits
Drank the drinks
And packed the van
You tipped your hat
Walked out, whisky in your hand
And we kept on driving
We were really living then
How’d the good times
Turn into regrets?
When no-one’s talking
They keep calling out from the dead
You wasted so much time
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Hallelujah for the losers
Begging for a break
And for all the common angels
With nothing big to say
This one goes out to the ladies
Sipping on Earl Grey
This one goes out to the fellas
Making dumb mistakes
Can you hear it, it's the kingdom
Swaying like a drunk
Out in the street with all the pilgrims
Laughing at its joke
Hallelujah
Hallelujah for you sinners
Sitting down to pray
Trying to find your way back
To your better yesterdays
And this one goes out to the lonely
Driving through the rain
Past the golden arches
Along the motorway
Hope I'll see you by the morning
Hope I'll see you when you wake
When your words will sound like mercy
And your smile will look like grace
Hallelujah
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9. |
Some Kind Of Redemption
04:09
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I don't know why I'm so scared of dying
That I hold my chest to feel the thud
And I turn on the radio when I'm driving
So I don't have to listen to the dark
The band is playing me a sad song
About what it means to be in love
And I keep on listening till it ends up
In some slow resolving chord
I'll be with you
When the wheels have stopped turning
And the lions are laying with the lambs
And we start making some strange kind of redemption
Out of all the things we had
I look back and you are golden
And you’re glowing
Bright as headlights through the fog
And I can see the sun kissing the skyline
Looks like an engine starting up
I'll be with you
When the mansions are all burning
And their walls have all been knocked down
And all my judges are jumping off of bridges
Planting flowers in the ground
I'll be with you
Where there's no more fear of falling
And the saints are caught up in the air
And this long and lonely road between us
Is finally repaired
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10. |
The Late Bus Home
03:49
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Take me back
To when we caught the late bus home
In the Wellington wind
After they cleared the bars
You were tipping your hat
To the other passengers
It felt like you and I
Would gladly take on anyone
But the years ran fast
And the days went slow
No-one ever played our singles on the radio
You said fuck ‘em
We'll just sing our way from show to show
And if we stick together
Then we can’t be stopped
I still hear you when I talk to God
He takes the singers
But he saves their songs
To keep swirling with him
Underneath the morning sky
Swaying to the beat
Slurring bye bye bye
I don’t have much left
To say to you, friend
When I think about it now
I guess I never did
You were always aching for the open road
And if you love someone
You’ve got to let them go
Didn’t know we had to hold on
Till you let us go
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We were so worn out
When we finally left the road
It was a shitty kinda gig
But we sure put on a show
And we didn't reach our destination
But at least we didn't stop
So 1, 2, 3
Here we go
Waiting for the Pentecost
We made an art of failing
Our failures became stars
Lighting the way back
To our half-remembered hearts
Where we are rocking for the losers
We are rolling for the drunks
Too undignified to exit
Waiting
Got low
Got up
Got low
Get up
The van is pulling up
We are staring through the fog
Trying to remember
An old hallelujah song
We may never get back
Everything we lost
Keep singing till the chorus
Waiting for the Pentecost
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